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Source language
Original Greek   
αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ Ἰωάννης εἶχεν τὸ ἔνδυμα αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τριχῶν καμήλου καὶ ζώνην δερματίνην περὶ τὴν ὀσφὺν αὐτοῦ, ἡ δὲ τροφὴ ⸂ἦν αὐτοῦ⸃ ἀκρίδες καὶ μέλι ἄγριον.
Greek - Transliteration via code library   
autos de o Ioannes eikhen to enduma autou apo trikhon kamelou kai zonen dermatinen peri ten osphun autou, e de trophe [?]en autou[?] akrides kai meli agrion.

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
ipse autem Iohannes habebat vestimentum de pilis camelorum et zonam pelliciam circa lumbos suos esca autem eius erat lucustae et mel silvestre

King James Variants
American King James Version   
And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
And the same John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a leather belt about his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
Authorized (King James) Version   
And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
New King James Version   
Now John himself was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
21st Century King James Version   
And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leather girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
Now John himself had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
And this Yohannan had his garment of camel hair and wore a leather garment around his waist, and his food was locusts and honey of the field.
Darby Bible Translation   
And John himself had his garment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins, and his nourishment was locusts and wild honey.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
And the same John had his garment of camels' hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
Now John himself had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
God's Word   
John wore clothes made from camel's hair and had a leather belt around his waist. His diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
John himself had a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
International Standard Version   
John had clothing made of camel's hair and wore a leather belt around his waist. His diet consisted of grasshoppers and wild honey.
NET Bible   
Now John wore clothing made from camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.
New American Standard Bible   
Now John himself had a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
New International Version   
John's clothes were made of camel's hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
New Living Translation   
John's clothes were woven from coarse camel hair, and he wore a leather belt around his waist. For food he ate locusts and wild honey.
Webster's Bible Translation   
And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Weymouth New Testament   
This man John wore a garment of camel's hair, and a loincloth of leather; and he lived upon locusts and wild honey.
The World English Bible   
Now John himself wore clothing made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
EasyEnglish Bible   
John wore clothes made from the hair of a camel. He also wore a belt made from leather. His usual food was locusts and honey from the wilderness.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
And this John had his clothing of camel's hair, and a girdle of skin round his loins, and his nourishment was locusts and honey of the field.
New Life Version   
John wore clothes made of hair from camels. He had a leather belt around him. His food was locusts and wild honey.
Revised Geneva Translation   
And this John had his garment of camel’s hair, and a girdle of a skin around his loins. Also, his food was locusts and wild honey.
The Voice Bible   
John wore wild clothes made from camel hair with a leather belt around his waist—the clothes of an outcast, a rebel. He ate locusts and wild honey.
Living Bible   
John’s clothing was woven from camel’s hair and he wore a leather belt; his food was locusts and wild honey.
New Catholic Bible   
John’s clothing was made of camel’s hair, with a leather loincloth around his waist, and his food consisted of locusts and wild honey.
Legacy Standard Bible   
Now John himself had a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair and a leathern girdle about his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Christian Standard Bible   
Now John had a camel-hair garment with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
This same John’s garments were made of camel’s hair, and he wore a leather girdle about his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
New Century Version   
John’s clothes were made from camel’s hair, and he wore a leather belt around his waist. For food, he ate locusts and wild honey.
The Message   
John dressed in a camel-hair habit tied at the waist by a leather strap. He lived on a diet of locusts and wild field honey. People poured out of Jerusalem, Judea, and the Jordanian countryside to hear and see him in action. There at the Jordan River those who came to confess their sins were baptized into a changed life.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
John wore clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament   
Now · John wore · clothing made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt about · his waist; · and his food was locusts and wild honey.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Now John wore clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
New Matthew Bible   
This John had his garment of camel’s hair, and a girdle of skin about his loins. His food was locusts and wild honey.
Good News Translation®   
John's clothes were made of camel's hair; he wore a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Wycliffe Bible   
And this John [Forsooth that same John] had clothing of camel's hairs, and a girdle of skin about his loins; and his meat was honeysuckles [soothly his meat was locusts], and honey of the wood.
New Testament for Everyone   
John himself had clothing made from camel’s hair, and a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
Contemporary English Version   
John wore clothes made of camel's hair. He had a leather strap around his waist and ate grasshoppers and wild honey.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair, and a leather girdle around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
J.B. Phillips New Testament   
John wore clothes of camel-hair with a leather belt round his waist, and lived on locusts and wild honey. The people of Jerusalem and of all Judea and the Jordan district flocked to him, and were baptised by him in the river Jordan, publicly confessing their sins.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
Now John wore clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
Now John wore clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Common English Bible © 2011   
John wore clothes made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
Now this same John had clothing made of camel’s hair and a [wide] leather band around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt round his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
John wore clothing made of camel’s hair and had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
New American Standard Bible   
Now John himself had a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
The Expanded Bible   
John’s clothes were made from camel’s hair, and he wore a leather belt around his waist [C reminiscent of the prophet Elijah; 2 Kin. 1:8]. For food, he ate locusts and wild honey [C signifies living off the land].
Tree of Life Version   
Now John wore clothing from camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Revised Standard Version   
Now John wore a garment of camel’s hair, and a leather girdle around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
New International Reader's Version   
John’s clothes were made out of camel’s hair. He had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
BRG Bible   
And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.
Complete Jewish Bible   
Yochanan wore clothes of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Worldwide English (New Testament)   
John wore clothes made of camel's hair and a leather belt. He ate locusts and wild honey.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
Now John wore clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
Now Yochanan himself had camel-hair clothing and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was arbe (locusts) and devash (wild honey).
Names of God Bible   
John wore clothes made from camel’s hair and had a leather belt around his waist. His diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.
Modern English Version   
This same John had clothing made of camel’s hair, a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
Easy-to-Read Version   
John’s clothes were made from camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. For food, he ate locusts and wild honey.
International Children’s Bible   
John’s clothes were made from camel’s hair. He wore a leather belt around his waist. For food, he ate locusts and wild honey.
Lexham English Bible   
Now John himself had his clothing made from camel’s hair and a belt made of leather around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
New International Version - UK   
John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt round his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
Disciples Literal New Testament   
Now John himself was having his clothing [made] of camel’s hair, and a belt made-of-leather around his waist. And his food was locusts and wild honey.